Ready to pull my hair out!!!!!
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| Tue, 05-08-2007 - 10:26am |
Hi everyone. I know I haven't been around much recently and it's good to get back to the board. I've just been having several issues hit me at once.
First is my ex not paying child support. So I'm going to have to take legal action or go through Child Support Enforcement to extract the money he owes. That's not going to be a fun chore, but it is a necessary one. Especially now because of my second issue...
That would be my job. I'm STILL out of work and it's driving me nuts! I FINALLY heard back from the pdoc that did the tests and his e-mail consisted of "I'm finishing your report and you'll have it this afternoon." Which is the same thing he told me yesterday. I'm starting to think this guy doesn't grasp the concept of the fact that I'm not able to work until personnel gets this stupid report! I've been out of work since the first week of March and it's now we're into May already. Enough is enough! I need to get back to work and start bringing home a paycheck. I've been living off of my mother for the past 2 months and I thank God that she has been supportive through all of this otherwise I don't know where I'd be. Probably living in a box somewhere on the street.
Third, is my 17 yo DD. She's in the middle of a deep depression and is thinking about going i/p again. Except she is determined not to do it until after the 16th of this month because she has A.P. testing at school that she can't miss. She's having the urges to self-harm, etc. Which is a huge red flag for me to get her help. I told her to call the pdoc, because the pdoc needs to know what's going on. DD thinks it might be the increase in her lamictal because this didn't start until after the increase. She has missed a LOT of school because of her episodes already and I hate to think of her missing anymore because she is still behind from her last i/p stay. At this rate she'll never catch up and she refuses to think about repeating her Junior year in high school because she's worried about how it will look on a college application. Her grades are good enough to pass into her Senior year at this point, but if she misses much more school her grades will drop, just as they dropped from her i/p stay.
Then I have the charge of reckless driving hanging over my head as a result of the accident I was in Easter weekend. If I get convicted it could have serious repurcussions on my job, which I really don't need right now.
And finally, yesterday I was paid a visit by one of the town's Public Works employees. He told me that several of our neighbors have complained about our yard. They say that there is trash in the yard, that our grass isn't mowed and it's "unsightly." Well, fortunately the PW employee didn't find any trash in the yard, but did point out that the grass needs to be cut. Which is all fine and good. We just got our lawn mower back from being repaired, which is why the grass hadn't been cut and I told him as much. But I've got weeds that have to be eliminated for which I need a weed eater, or some good old fashioned hard labor. I got the front yard mowed yesterday and plan on working on the back yard today. But the reason this irks me so much is the fact that we do not live in a subdivision that has a Home Owners Association and, to me at least, our neighbors shouldn't have called the town office to complain. If they would have come to us we could have explained the tall grass and pointed out the lack of trash in the yard. Oh well, it takes all kinds so they say.
So, other than all of that, I'm still trying to stay current with my school work which is time consuming, but have finally figured out a system that will allow me to visit the board as often as I should. Sorry this got so long, but I've had a whale of a time these past few months. And I had to get it out, otherwise I think I would explode. If you have made it this far, thank you for listening.
Hugs,
Traci



(((((Traci))))),
Go after DH with both feet--heck if you can, go after him for an increase due to your change in circumstances!